အ-
Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Phonetic respelling: အ'
- IPA(key): /ʔə/
- Romanization: MLCTS: a.- • ALA-LC: ʼa- • BGN/PCGN: ă • Okell: ă
Etymology 1
[edit]Prefix
[edit]အ- • (a.-)
- used to make nouns from verbs, from adjectives or from other nouns
- used with a reduplicated noun to mean ‘various, diverse’
- sometimes used as meaningless prefix to disambiguate in sentences
Usage notes
[edit]Very frequently deleted when the noun to which it is prefixed is used in a compound. When used with a reduplicated polysyllabic noun, only the first syllable is reduplicated.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Pali a- (“not”).
Prefix
[edit]အ- • (a.-)
- particle prefixed to words derived from Pali and Sanskrit to denote negation
Synonyms
[edit]- မ (ma.)